He Left One Pizza Crust Behind. It Exposed a Serial Killer | Grim Sleeper

The busboy who cleared his table was not a busboy. He was an undercover detective. On July 5, 2010, Lonnie Franklin Jr. left a pizza crust on his plate at a birthday party in Buena Park, California. That crust carried his DNA — and it ended a 25-year manhunt for the killer Los Angeles called the Grim Sleeper. This is the full story: the first murder in a South L.A. alley in 1985… the eight women dead by 1988, all shot with the same pistol… the one woman who survived, Enietra Washington, and the sketch that was never enough… fourteen years of silence… a DNA profile with no name… the secret 800 Task Force… and the familial DNA search that found his son first — and led police to a pizza table, a busboy who wasn't a busboy, and one bite that brought down a killer. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Busboy Was a Detective 0:14 1985: The First Victim 0:49 One Gun, One Killer 1:25 The Survivor 2:07 Fourteen Years of Silence 2:47 The Return — and the DNA 3:29 A Code With No Name 4:06 The Familial Search 4:41 The Son 5:26 The Man Next Door 6:03 The Sting Is Set 6:39 One Bite 7:09 The Arrest 7:46 Ten Murders Charged 8:16 Six Years of Court 8:50 The Trial — 2016 9:26 Guilty 9:51 Sentenced to Death 10:19 San Quentin 10:55 The Shape of the Hunt Sources: Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly (Christine Pelisek's Grim Sleeper reporting), Associated Press, Reuters, Science (AAAS) on the 2010 familial DNA search, LAPD booking records, Los Angeles County court records. Every fact in this video was checked against at least two sources. This video contains no graphic imagery. Victims are named from public court records only. New true crime stories every week on Real Crime Files.